We had a wonderful Christmas, staying home with our family, just the 5 of us. On Christmas eve, we gathered together, watched the 'church movie' 'Joy to the World' and read the Christmas story in Luke 2, singing many Christmas songs. The girls were really into it, which made it really nice. Jonkje must have felt good too as he was mostly happily quiet. It was just really special in a sweet way. Then on Christmas morning the girls were ofcourse very excited, and they got spoiled! The had each a craft to put mosiac stickies on beautiful drawings of unicorns (Sofia) and a castle (Lilian). IN the same trend they received a toy unicorn and pegasus, which they have played with together ever since! They also each got a scooter ('step' in NL), some clothes and a new tennis racket that was finally the right size!
I am so glad to see that they are really enjoying their gifts, especially when they were excited to go in their new trainings suit on their scooter, with their tennis racket to the tennis courts in our neighborhood to play tennis with mama, yeah! They have had already many hours of fun craft time with the mosaic stickers and made beautiful pictures, which would make nice decorations for their room someday! Jonkje has been super excited about his xylophone and truck that Santa brought him, and he too now has some clothes that fit (met z'n dikke buik! :) ).
We had a wonderful time, with a delicious dinner that we were very lucky to share with the De Moors family. They were so much fun to have around, Vendella (the mom) is really fun and active, and her children Moroni, Dimitrius and Chastity were a lot of fun to have around, open, interesting and interested, and we all had a fun time playing 'catch phrase'. They stayed throughout the evening and the day couldn't have been better, partly because of them coming over! So glad we invited them!
The next day we finally went to get family pictures taken, again at Portrait Innovations in Newnan. Sofia's 1 tooth was kind of hanging out (both front top teeth are now history!), and the pics were a little blurry. However, we are still happy to have been able to get new pictures!
Here are some of our favorites:
5 comments:
how funny that the girls (at least sofi) already look totally different sans teeth! how fun to go ice skating...i forget that park is up there. can't wait to see florida pics!
your girls look so grown up! i like those last pics with their sunday dresses on. they are so cute!
Ni har så söta barn!!!
I can't believe how grown up your girls are looking. Beautiful. Take care.
Wow, your kids are growing so fast!
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